Gardaí reinvestigating murder of French filmmaker in 1996 in light of new claims
Sophie Tuscan Du Plantier. Picture by Patrick Zimmermann/AFP via Getty Images
October 31 2021 02:30 AM
A special squad of gardaí has been quietly re investigating the notoriously brutal murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, the Sunday Independent can reveal.
Five officers, operating under a Superintendent, have been taking statements and checking claims that have stemmed from the screening of two television documentaries and an appeal for information from Sophie’s son, Pierre-Louis Baudey-Vignaud.
The operation is based in Macroom and has been active for months. Among those reinterviewed has been a former neighbour of Sophie’s amid claims a prowler was in the vicinity of that house too on the night the French filmmaker died — December 23, 1996.
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